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An interesting idea. Having been to Pats 15 times, I never had an issue finding some of those toilets behind many of the bars and paying 5 or 10 baht to use them. But something along beach road in the few spots not particularly close to the side street bars might be reasonable. I do not mind paying a reasonable price

The C 130 Prop pitch really can be changed so much that the plane does generate reverse thrust if you will. It is not done during the landing but is often done once the plane is on the ground. There are videos out there showing it and I have seen them demonstrate it at Air Shows here in the USA

I used to always get it in that little row of stores next to KISS restaurant on 2nd road. One little shop had a few different papers for sale. Pretty sure the fancy book store in the big mall had a paper section also. Been four years since I been to Pattaya

Yes it can take 5 minutes, but it requires documentation and proof of some things that I never ever have done. I have never booked and paid for a hotel in advance. Sure upon arrival the old TM 6 was it, had you write down where you were staying and I would put a hotel I knew of and might stay at. But I learned very early on to always see the room first before I pay. I might be able to get something good enough for the E visa, but it is so much simpler to just do the visa exempt. I first went to Thailand because it was convenient. My contracting jobs never started or ended on firm dates, so just being able to book last minute flights and travel and enter visa exempt got me there 15 times. And while as I read the Evisa has a validity of I think three months, or something like that, before you have to use it, I prefer not to use it. If I have to as they seem to be going that way, then so be it. It is like the old Single Entry Tourist Visa SETV. And being able to apparently get a multi entry up front, it actually is not too bad looking

yes I have read that. I am hoping it stays at least for the next few months so I can at least take advantage of it this year, probably August is my travel time. I would love to get 90 days in or at least the 60 days with little effort. Have done an extension now and then over a decade ago and it was not a big deal really. But 60 + 30 would be the bee's knees,

Load shift likely a contributing factor. I can picture several of the occupants huddled over the pilot and co pilot seats looking at things. Then the mechanical issue (presumably). Too much weight forward to do any stall recovery, if that was even possible. The video seems to show not much control surface deflection

Reports say the aircraft had significant modifications before this flight which included stick and control surfaces. Video seems to show the aircraft had no control surface deflections. If it had done a low speed stall, it is not unreasonable to go nose down and pick up some speed and recover, but I don't think I see anything happening in the way of recovery. The aircraft performance sheet listed a stall speed of 65 mph. Three pilots on board what seems to have been a maintenance check out flight. Maybe inexperienced pilot was at the controls and just didn't know what to do. I personally, being an engineer and ex Air Force Captain in the aviation industry for decades and having been to Thailand over a dozen times, suspect the maintenance work and the follow up inspection and sign off process.

OK thanks. Still wondering why the UK has or does not have reciprocal - agreements with certain countries. I will poke the interweb. Thanks

While I am one of the most above the board rule followers, I prefer to avoid as much imperial involvement as possible. I typically do pick up a cheap Thai phone and data plan while there and just use that for local Thai communications where it does come in handy. I do not do any banking of any importance or purchase anything using my regular USA phone and I plan to continue in that vain.

Very informative post as I plan on doing the exact same thing before this year is out as I semi retire from my contract job in the USA. I plan to go to Thailand on the 60 day visa exempt + 30 day extension. Then I guess I would leave Thailand for a few nights and then come back in and do the 60 + 30 one more time. And I of course will plan my travels so that I am NOT in Thailand for 180 days or more to avoid any involvement with those recent Tax rules.

Why is Philippines not increase limited but Thailand is? For that matter, what countries does the UK increase things and which does it not?

haha. I cut my teeth on WordPerfect decades ago. Didn't realize it was still around

Yes. I too have used that for a long time now. So far it has been totally compatible with WORD and EXCEL documents both that I generate or that I get from real Office Applications. I still use hotmail.com for my email, and that does not require OFFICE 365 or whatever. Of course one can use all sorts of other email domains such as gmail, yahoo, etc..

If you travel or are already traveling how can you get an email and print it out? How quickly is the email sent after you submit the form using the website? Even if I bring my smartphone, I will NOT have service inside BKK unless or until I buy some new SIM card, or buy some travel connection plan

It did not appear to me that the departure was optional.